 Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP

The Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP was a medium-sized FARC-EP bloc which operated in the Northern areas of Colombia and along the Caribbean coast, with routes and access to the coast being strategically important, and was thus sometimes referred to as the Northern Bloc.At the end of the 1990s the group had much control over the rural areas connecting the urban centers of the Caribbean region, but in the 2000s was forced to retreat into the more inhospitable Andes.